A new research study examined the results from data generated by citizen scientists using a simple web-based motor test. The big data approach provides researchers with a unique way to explore how ...

Comparing the brains of mice that exercised with those that did not, researchers found that specific neurotransmitters switched following sustained exercise, leading to improved learning for ...

For example, Edwards-Groves (2012) points out that “[i]n contemporary educational media ‘explicit teaching’ has been ...

From writing an article and typing to playing a violin or being a tennis star, the learning of tasks involving movement is one of the brain’s most complex challenges. How does one acquire new motor ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen have discovered that the brain reorganizes itself extensively across several brain regions when it learns to perform movements in a virtual ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) suggests that handwriting practice refines fine-tuned motor skills and creates a perceptual-motor experience that appears to help adults learn ...

Correspondence to Dr Elmar Kal, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences; Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University London, London UB8 3PH, UK; elmar.kal{at}brunel.ac.uk ACL injury ...